The newspapers are shaking up their front pages and the television channels their program this Wednesday, to pay tribute to one of the greatest French actors, Claude Brasseur.
The man of theater and cinema ("La Boum", "An elephant that trumps enormously", "Camping" ...) died Tuesday, at the age of 84 years.
For some, it was Vic's father in
La Boum
, for others it was Daniel in
We will all go to paradise
, or Jacky in
Camping
.
The media world is today paying tribute to Claude Brasseur, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, one of the greatest French actors and who had known how to reach all generations and all audiences.
Wednesday morning, we find him in the front page of several newspapers, including
Le Parisien
,
Le Figaro
and
Nice-Matin.
Television is also shaking up its programs.
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Starting with France 3, which offers the films
Un elephant, it deceives enormously on
Wednesday evening
, followed by
We will all go to paradise
.
Claude Brasseur gives the reply in these two feature films to Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanoux and Guy Bedos.
Viewers will find in the second a scene that has become cult, that of the tense dialogue between Claude Brasseur and Victor Lanoux, during a game of tennis in the property that the four friends bought just next to an airport.
Author's cinema and blockbuster films
TFX will also pay tribute to the late actor.
The channel has deprogrammed a documentary to rebroadcast
La Boom
this evening
, the cult 1980 film, in which he played the father of young Vic, played by Sophie Marceau.
Claude Brasseur was a great film actor, with no less than a hundred films to his credit.
He has toured with Godard and Truffaut in particular.
But he was also a great man of the theater, having interpreted more than thirty plays on stage.
Claude Brasseur will be buried at Père Lachaise.
The date of the ceremony has not yet been announced.